Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.
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I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.
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Of course managers win ball games.
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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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I believe in God and not religion, because I believe religion is the double cross. Because I've been double crossed by three religions, so I think I can safely say that religion - there is maybe something wrong with religion. Every temple that's put up may not be a holy one, so watch out.
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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
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Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
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I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.
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You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
